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...Vagabond has reason to regret many of the grand old customs that have departed, but there are few which bring more sickness to the heart than the passing of Mead. Life today has become an eternal procession of gin bottles and whiskey sours. The decanter has been swept from the side board and the flagon from the wine closet. Men no longer love the good things, they follow after the bitter...
These two signs told the whole story of Federal efforts to halt the rapid spread of New York's cordial & beverage shops where almost anybody can buy a bottle of gin for a dollar. Two years ago, one of the first to open was the shop at No. 201 East 44th Street (TIME, Feb. 10, 1930 et seq.). Gin. whiskey, brandy and liqueurs were openly displayed, openly sold. While the proprietor, one Mike, openly scoffed, while a Columbia University student wrote to President Hoover about it, the U. S. District Attorney's office said the matter would...
Competition has reduced prices. Recently Manhattan's West Side shops cut the price of Grade C gin to 75?. Some of the East Side shops followed. At others the price has remained $1 and $1.25. Grade B gin is 50? more, Grade A 25? above that. The grades vary little in taste. Prices depend to some extent on the location of the shops; chiefly on overhead- rents and "tips." Rents usually vary between $50 and $200 per month; shopowners are unwilling to say how much it costs them to remain unmolested. Profits are not exorbitant. One gallon...
Last week's quotations at a cordial shop near fashionable Sutton Place: Gin- Grade A, $2. Grade B, $1.75. Grade C, $1.25. Rye-William Penn $2.50 (pt.), Silver Dollar $3 (pt.), Overholt $4 (pt.), Butterham & Worth $4.50 (pt.). Scotch -Ambassador $2.50 (pt.), King George $2.50 (pt.), Johnnie Walker $4.75 (qt.), King George $4.75 (qt.). Port-$2.25 per quart. Sherry-$2.25 per quart. Grain Alcohol-$9 per gallon. Imported Cordi-als-$4.50 per bottle. Beer-$9 per case of 24 pints...
Belize was founded by British pirates. The name Belize was unaccountably derived by Spaniards from the name of the Scottish Settler Wallis. Legend relates that the city was built in a swamp on a foundation of gin pots and mahogany chips. If this is so, it would have been better if the city's fathers had thrown in a few more pots and chips, for Belize is only a few inches above sealevel. Out of this circumstance came the second and far more horrible tragedy...